We assessed the effects of overgrazing by feral sheep on watersheds
on Santa Cruz Island, California. Overgrazing had a marked effect on stream
flow; flows were much greater in overgrazed than in lightly grazed ...

The success of introduced invaders has often been attributed to their
release from natural enemies, We compared rates of seed and ovule destruction
by insects and fungal pathogens in an alien invader, fountain grass ...

Annual assessments of reef communities at Kona, Hawai'i, from 1985
to 1995 determined that the corallivorous sea star Acanthaster planci preferred as
prey the smaller colonies of Pocillopora meandrina over the far more ...

A rare sighting of five killer whales (Orcinus orca), including one
juvenile, occurred on 20 March 2000 during an aerial survey of waters west
of the Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau. The sighting occurred ca. 11 km west ...

River floods and hydrological droughts (low stream water resources)
are a recurrent problem in different parts of Fiji, causing disruption and hardship
for many rural communities. These extremes in fluvial behavior are ...

The longevity of viviparous mangrove seedlings (propagules) in seawater
is a key factor determining their ability to survive dispersal both locally
and across large expanses of ocean. The purpose of this experiment was ...

Biological and ecological attributes of 24 species of edible bivalves and
gastropods from the Gilbert Islands Group, Kiribati, Micronesia, were assessed
for their resilience by examining size at maturity, intertidal ...

Among the multiple interactions between governments and museums
that were so important for the growth of natural history in the nineteenth century,
perhaps none looked more promising at its inception than did the ...

Philocheras breviflagella, a new species of crangonid shrimp, is described
and illustrated on the basis of a single ovigerous female collected from
O'ahu, Hawai'i, at subtidal depth. The new species is most similar to ...

Mictognathus colemani Otto, n. sp., is described from the Great Barrier
Reef. is the third known species in its genus and the first species of Mictognathus known to occur in tropical waters. Distinguishing features are ...

Polydora and related genera associated with hermit crabs from shallow
subtidal coral reef areas of the Indo-West Pacific are described. Over 2000
hermit crabs were collected from localities in the Philippines and Indonesia ...

Based on study of material collected in the Gambier Islands (eastern
Polynesia) by the 1934 Mangarevan Expedition and in 1997, two endemic species
of Euconulidae are shown to exhibit apertural barriers unlike those of ...

Seven nonindigenous species of reptiles (two freshwater turtles, one
gekkonid lizard, and four snakes) were recorded on Pohnpei and adjacent Ant
Atoll (Federated States of Micronesia) for the first time within the past ...

The pilargid polychaete Talehsapia annandalei Fauvel, 1932, has been
rediscovered in its type locality and its taxonomic affinities are clarified. The
genus is set off from remaining synelmins based on possession of palps ...

Reproductive ecological research on three land hermit crabs, Coenobita
rugosus, C. purpureus, and C. cavipes, was conducted in the southern part of
Okinawa-jima island in 1985, 1986, 1987, and for a short period in 1999. ...

Ten species offishes of the genus Kuhlia are recognized from Palau to
Hawai'i in the North Pacific and from Fiji to Easter Island in the South Pacific:
K malo (Valenciennes) from fresh water in the Society Islands; K ...

We assessed the risk to Hawai'i's native species and human quality of
life posed by the introduction of alien snake species. An examination of Hawai'i
Department of Agriculture records from 1990 to 2000 indicated hundreds ...

The mitotic chromosome number and karyotype of Sophora fernandeziana
(Phil.) Skottsb. (subfamily Papilionoideae) are reported for the first
time. The chromosome number, 2n = 18, is the modal number reported for the
genus. ...